Muscat: Jokha al Harthy has become the first writer in the Arabic language to win the Man Booker International Prize for her Celestial Bodies.
The book tells the story of three sisters and a desert country confronting its slave-owning past and a complex modern world.
The author plans to split the £50,000 ($S63,000) prize money with her translator, Marilyn Booth, a professor from the United States.
The prize, given to the best book translated into English and published in Britain, is seen as the world’s most significant award for translated fiction. It is different from the Booker Prize, for fiction originally published in English.
The author three novels, two stories and two children’s stories to her credit.
Jokha al Harthy has three novels, two stories and two children’s stories, and her novel Narangha (2016) won the Sultan Qaboos Prize for Culture, Arts and Letters 2016.
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